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I recently purchased and installed Distant Worlds Universe via Steam. On my laptop, the game attempts to start and then crashes. I see where it is trying to create a couple of the smaller windows/buttons from the beginning of the game. I have followed the troubleshooting posted to the Steam site. No luck. On my computer at home (similarly configured machine), I installed DX9 and it started fine first try. Below is the configuration for each machine.
Laptop:
Intel I7-11800H@2.30GHZ
NVIDA GeForce RTX 3070 (GPU)/Intel UHD Graphics
16 GB RAM
Windows 10

Home:
AMD Ryzen 5600
MSI 3060 TI (GPU)
16 GB Ram
Windows 10

In the folder for Distant Worlds Universe, edit the file Startup.ini

Go to the last line and change it to
playmovie 0

Confirmed that this fix works. Thank you.